Minimates

This holiday season, both kids expressed a desire for Minimates. The thirteen-year-old has been getting them for years, and in fact objected slightly to her sister's request on the grounds that they'll get them mixed up and that the eight-year-old only wants them because she's not allowed to play with hers. Since the younger one didn't ask for any specific characters, just that she wanted Minimates, it's possible that she is right on that count.

I'll admit that these toys don't appeal to me a whole lot, but they do have a decent variety of characters. Every other one is a Batman variant, but still, a variety. The kids like that the parts are interchangeable--that you can put Emma Frost's hair on the Beast and so forth. And that they can make Lego houses for them to live in. The two-per-pack thing guarantees that you'll get someone you don't want, but that doesn't really seem to be a problem.

So tonight I'm scouring the net for these things, not writing about my comic habit. Wish me luck.